Description
Book SynopsisA smart and succinct history of the Labour left
Trade Review'A welcome corrective, This book astutely appraises British politics’ most frustrating but important dissident tradition'
-- 'Guardian'
'Admirably clear-sighted'
-- 'New Statesman'
'At a very crucial time in British politics, this book helps us to fill in important gaps in our knowledge'
-- David Coates, author of 'Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour in Britain'
'A well-timed explanation of the class contradictions at the root of the Labour Party from its creation to the present day'
-- 'Labour Briefing'
Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition by Nadia Whittome MP
Foreword to the First Edition by John McDonnell MP
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Divided Beginnings
2. Second Time as Disaster
3. The Age of Consent
4. The Civil War
5. 'Though Cowards Flinch...'
6. The Broad Church Collapses
7. The Single Idea
8. The Corbyn Supremacy
9. From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny…
Conclusion: …Where Civil Blood Makes Civil Hands Unclean
Notes
Index
